From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: During install, while extracting from disk3, there was no more progress for almost 30 minutes; no change of rpm to be inflated. The mouse was active. But there was no chance to stop the current rpm from being installed. Agreed, disk3 turned out to 'fail' the media test. Though, I propose that when an error occurs, the user should have more alternatives than power-off. An erroneous rpm could be skipped (and installed later, after reboot), e.g. instead of freezing all inputs (except mouse), which means start from scratch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert install disk containing errors 2. 3. Actual Results: a program that cannot be inflated will be skipped. Expected Results: The users can continue on their own; and have some control over the procedure (skip current, pause, etc) Additional info:
PLEASE do this. I've wanted this on the RH install since back in 4.2. If there is a scratch on the CD or anything, the whoe thing starts over with the same problem next time. Just add a "SKIP" optin and a warning that you must install be hand to avoid dependency problems, maybe even give a command line to run after install.
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Deferring to a future release. We should allow for ejecting and replacing the CD with a new one if you hit a problem package during the installation now, though.
*** Bug 30029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A skip option requires significant changes in many ways and doesn't make sense for many packages (eg, if glibc fails to install a skip button isn't going to help at all). We now catch every case that we can of a package failure before trying to install the package and allow you to replace the CD in cases where you have problems.
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